Re: [gentoo-user] /usr/bin/test doesn't seem to do anything

2006-01-28 Thread Beau E. Cox
On Friday 27 January 2006 09:43 pm, Robert Persson wrote: On Thursday 26 January 2006 16:22 Richard Fish was like: test doesn't output anything...it indicates success/failure with the exit code.   ... As others have said though, watch out for the 'test' command built-in to many shells,

Re: [gentoo-user] /usr/bin/test doesn't seem to do anything

2006-01-27 Thread Robert Persson
On Thursday 26 January 2006 16:22 Richard Fish was like: test doesn't output anything...it indicates success/failure with the exit code.   ... As others have said though, watch out for the 'test' command built-in to many shells, as the behavior there is defined by the shell. Generally though,

[gentoo-user] /usr/bin/test doesn't seem to do anything

2006-01-26 Thread Robert Persson
Someone was kind enough to send me a script that calls /usr/bin/test. When the script didn't work I realised that test was behaving strangely. Basically it doesn't seem to return anything. For instance test -f /usr/bin/test doesn't display any output. Nor does test --help. Nor test --version.

Re: [gentoo-user] /usr/bin/test doesn't seem to do anything

2006-01-26 Thread Zac Medico
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Robert Persson wrote: Someone was kind enough to send me a script that calls /usr/bin/test. When the script didn't work I realised that test was behaving strangely. Basically it doesn't seem to return anything. For instance test -f

Re: [gentoo-user] /usr/bin/test doesn't seem to do anything

2006-01-26 Thread Eric Bliss
On Thursday 26 January 2006 03:35 pm, Robert Persson wrote: Someone was kind enough to send me a script that calls /usr/bin/test. When the script didn't work I realised that test was behaving strangely. Basically it doesn't seem to return anything. For instance test -f /usr/bin/test

Re: [gentoo-user] /usr/bin/test doesn't seem to do anything

2006-01-26 Thread Richard Fish
On 1/26/06, Robert Persson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Someone was kind enough to send me a script that calls /usr/bin/test. When the script didn't work I realised that test was behaving strangely. Basically it doesn't seem to return anything. test doesn't output anything...it indicates